"Michael is the Ashton Kutcher of West Hollywood – he's already datedNora Schweihs from Mob Wives and she was a LOT older than him!" a friend of his told Daily Mail. "But he really likesStacey and he's taken her hiking and to the Sunset Tower Hotel and she's taking him with her to New York next month."

Stacey is the mother of two children – Austin, 24, and Lola, 11, from two different marriages.

"Sitting here tonight, I'm gonna say something that I would never want to say, publicly," Patterson says in the clip provided by WWE. "For once in my life, I'm gonna be me now," he continues, tearing up. "I survived all this, being gay."

Sobbing and wiping his face with a napkin, he adds: "I lived with that for 50-something years. I had a friend with me for 40 years and I lost him because he had a heart attack… It's tough guys, it was tough.